“Charlie Christians’ contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons’ contributions to the world.”

When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!

Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It’s not the thing in itself; it’s preparatory to the activity

I’m not interested in a marketable product: I’m interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence

he signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing

Charlie Christian showed me a lot, and was a great help, but even then, I realised that if I was going to make it, it was no use copying Charlie

What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says ‘Be still and know you are God.’ What is this? You are peace, compassion, truth, Love, freedom. Real love.

Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious – but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance.

Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.

He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. ‘

The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.

It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.

Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue.

Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.